Mechanics of Fluids

• Course Outline
  • Section 1001 –2:00-2:50 PM
     
• Handouts
  • Historical and Introductory Concepts
    • Brief history of fluid mechanics
    • Disciplines and subdisciplines associated with fluid mechanics
    • Particular engineering interests
    • Ideal problem solving strategies
    • Examples on using the control volume approach
    • Course notebook
    • Course logbook
    • Related video titles
    • Expanding websites
    • Flow visualization techniques
    • Flow classfication
        
  • Contributors
    • Archimedes (c.287 BC-c. 212 BC)
    • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
    • René Descartes (1596-1650)
    • Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)
    • Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662)
    • Brook Taylor (1685-1731)
    • George Hadley (1685-1768)
    • Henri Pitot (1695-1771)
    • Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782)
    • Ján Andrej Segner (1704-1777)
    • Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) (see also)
    • Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
    • Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813)
    • Giovanni Venturi (1746-1822)
    • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
    • Gaspard de Prony (1755-1839)
    • George Cayley (1773-1857)
    • Claude-Louis Navier (1785-1836)
    • Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788-1867)
    • Isaac Newton (1792-1727) (see also)
    • Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792-1843)
    • Gotthilf Hagen (1797-1884)
    • Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille  (1799-1869)
    • Heinrich Magnus (1802-1870)
    • Benoît Fourneron (1802-1867)
    • Henry Darcy (1803-1858)
    • Uriah Boyden (1804-1879)
    • Julius Weisbach (1806-1871)
    • William Froude (1810-1879)
    • James Francis (1815-1892)
    • Robert Manning (1816-1897)
    • C.H.D. Buys Ballot (1817-1890)
    • William Ferrel (1817-1891)
    • George Stokes (1819-1903)
    • Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
    • William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907)
    • Lester Pelton (1829-1908)
    • Osbourne Reynolds (1842-1912)
    • Nikolai Zhukovsky (1847-1921)
    • Martin Kutta (1867-1944)
    • Paul Blasius (1873-1970)
    • Viktor Kaplan (1876-1934)
    • G. I. Taylor (1886-1975)
    • Lewis Richardson (1881-1953)
    • Harald Sverdrup (1888-1957)
    • Carl-Gustav Rossby (1898-1957)
    • George Batchelor (1920-2000)
    • John Ockendon (c. 1941-present)
    • Blaise Pascal and René Descartes
    • Other contributors
       
  • Related Terms
     
  • Useful Summaries
    • Basic terms
    • Hydrostatic relations, centroids, and area moments of inertia
    • Centroids for several common shapes
    • Centroids for 4 shapes
    • Properties of common fluids
    • Properties of water and air
    • Extended Moody chart
    • Moody chart
    • Some loss coefficients
       
  • Navier-Stokes Equations
    • Cartesian coordinates (Summary)
    • Cartesian coordinates (2D)
    • Cartesian coordinates (3D)
    • Cylindrical coordinates (Summary)
    • Cylindrical coordinates (2D)
    • Cylindrical coordinates (3D)
          
  • Pipe Flow Problem Solving Strategies
    • Classical
    • Advanced
    • TI computer programs
       
  • Dimensional Analysis
    • Procedure and parameters

• Homework Assignments
  • 1.  Kinematics
  • 2.  Hydrostatics
  • 3.  Streamline Analysis
  • 4.  Integral Analysis
  • 5.  Differential Analysis
  • 6.  Pipe Flow Analysis
  • 7.  Dimensional Analysis